Harness-saddle.



No. 697,060. ,A PatenfedApr'. 8, |902.

. M. WILSON.`

HARNESS SADDLE; (Appucasiqn med Nov. 7, 1901.

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UNTTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAT'IIIEV WILSON, OF GARRISON, IOVA.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,060, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed November '7. 1901. Serial No. 81.428. (No model.)

To all whom, may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garrison, in the county of Benton and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Harness-Saddle, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in harness-saddles.

The object of the present invention is to im prove the .construction of harness-saddles, more especially the construction of the back plate orV yoke for covering the saddle tree or frame and the side straps, and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one which will increase the strength and durability of the saddle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of a harness-saddle constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the back plate or yoke'. Fig. 4. is a detail sectional View on the line 4. 4 of Fig. 2.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a back plate or yoke arranged on the upper face of the frame or tree 2 of the saddle and provided with front and rear longitudinal flanges 3 and 4, forming a space to receive the side straps 5 of the saddle and arranged at the opposite longitudinal edges of the frame or tree 2. The rear flanges are arranged at each of the sides or side portions of the plate or yoke and are spaced apart at the top of the same to provide an opening 6, through which extends the loop 7 for the crupper-strap. The front ange is continuous and extends across the center of the yoke or plate along both side portions.

The yoke or plate is provided with openings for the reception of the pad-screws 8 and the Shanks of the cheokrein-hook and terretrings, and it is designed to be constructed of any suitable metal, and its side flanges extend downward to the pad and t against the top of the same at the front and back of the harness-saddle. i

In order to increase the strength and durability of the saddle, the top plate or yoke, which conforms to the configuration of the saddle frame or tree, extends to the end loops 9 of the saddle frame or tree. The loops 9, which extend upward from the saddle frame or tree, receive the side straps of the harnesssaddle, and the ends of the plate or yoke are reduced to form tongues IO, which extend through the loops and which are preferably rounded, as shown. The ends of the front and rear side langes are cut away at opposite sides of the yoke or plate and form shoulders at the inner ends of the tongues, which greatly increase I[he strength and durability of the saddle by being extended through and engaged with the end loops of the saddle frame or tree.

It will be seen that the back plate or yoke is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction and adapted to be readily applied to a saddle, that it extends from one end loop of the saddletree to the other, and that by being interlooked with the said loops the strength of the saddle at the top is greatly increased.

In a saddle, the combination of a saddletree provided with upwardly extending transverselysdisposed end loops, and a yoke consisting of a top plate provided with side flanges and having longitudinal extensions or tongues projecting through the end loops and secured to the saddle by the same, said tongues being arranged in the same planes as the adjacent portions of the said plate and formed by reducing the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MATTHEW WILSON.

I/Vitnesses:

L. F. HEIDEN, J. W. DUNCAN. 

